"Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an
increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar
Assad's regime, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday."

"A Turkish newspaper has reported that French military forces are training armed
Syrian rebels to fight the government of President Bashar Al Assad.

According to Milliyet, France has sent its military training forces to Turkey and
Lebanon to coach the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) — a group of defectors
operating out of Turkey and Lebanon — in an effort to wage war against Syria's
military.

The report added that the French, British, and Turkish authorities “have reached
an agreement to send arms into Syria.”"